Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon].

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the enormities he was guilty ofHe said, (and to that he attributed the ac- cumulated load of sin with which he was then overwhelmed) from his earliest age he was much petted, indulged, and had his own way, being the favourite of his mother. Born with a nerve that never failed him in the pursuit of his object, and equal to any enterprize, even at school, from the robbing an orchard to the barring out the master, he was gener- ally preferred to the command of every daring adventure. This insensibly be- gat habitual pride, something that over- came principle, and almost silenced the voice of humanity, so that before he left Westminster, (to use the words of an elegant author, more appropriate here, than where they were originally used), “ he had blunted and worn out “ that inward feeling, which it is the “ interest of the good, and the wisdom * For “ Nemo repente turpissimus.”
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